Erik and I have been talking about Alclad and the basics of how it lays down. Thought I'd show real quick how nice it is to work with.
Here's the turbine of the Mig, I didn't do any surface prep other than removing the sprue gates, and did that sloppy. I gave it a coat of acrylic gloss black, Model Masters. Dried quickly. Then gave it a mist of Polished Aluminum and here's the result
the only thing I want visible is the turbine blades from up the tail pipe, if someone would look up there they will see it.
Now here we have the two halves of the exhaust pipe(I guess that's what it is). I did no prep work, this is right off the sprue. Now notice how nice and shinny the engine is compared to the inside of this pipe. As I said in that other post, Alclad is just going to mirror the surface it's being applied to. If it's rough, ugly, that's what it's going to be, if it's nice and smooth, it's going to shine.
I went with polished aluminum so the turbine would show up when looking up the pipe.
Grey wash, hope it brought the right hue around.
This way up!
now...time to polish. I've been sandbagging this stuff for a while. Got it from MicroMesh Their website sucks but their products rock.
Break out the shades folks, it's going to get bright!
Here's the turbine of the Mig, I didn't do any surface prep other than removing the sprue gates, and did that sloppy. I gave it a coat of acrylic gloss black, Model Masters. Dried quickly. Then gave it a mist of Polished Aluminum and here's the result
the only thing I want visible is the turbine blades from up the tail pipe, if someone would look up there they will see it.
Now here we have the two halves of the exhaust pipe(I guess that's what it is). I did no prep work, this is right off the sprue. Now notice how nice and shinny the engine is compared to the inside of this pipe. As I said in that other post, Alclad is just going to mirror the surface it's being applied to. If it's rough, ugly, that's what it's going to be, if it's nice and smooth, it's going to shine.
I went with polished aluminum so the turbine would show up when looking up the pipe.
Grey wash, hope it brought the right hue around.
This way up!
now...time to polish. I've been sandbagging this stuff for a while. Got it from MicroMesh Their website sucks but their products rock.
Break out the shades folks, it's going to get bright!